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Originally Posted by wardlow
Historically, politically, and culturally, I see Winnipeg more as a remote outpost of Ontario and the American Upper Midwest than I do as the eastern edge of the Canadian West (Western MB, SK, AB). Similar to how St. Louis or Chicago were considered gateways to the American West, but are themselves Midwestern cities.
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Yeah, the "Ontario of the Prairies."
But Manitoba seems more "cut off" from the US than Alberta/Saskatchewan. American immigration was less significant in Manitoba. Alberta and Saskatchewan obviously share demographic characteristics with Manitoba (i.e. Ukrainians) but also received a lot of German Russians and Norwegians from the Midwest/Great Plains. In Manitoba the Germans were much more Mennonite (and hardly any were Catholic, in contrast to Saskatchewan and the Dakotas) and the Scandinavian immigrants were Icelandic rather than Norwegian.